Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. We just don’t read her properly - we haven’t been reading her properly for 200 years. Devoney Looser on Jane Austen and our attempts to modernize and politicize the author. Kelly offers a salutary argument for reading Austens novels with the. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. Mansfield Park Jane Austen the Secret Radical book review The TLS. The New York Times Book Review Ambitious. Her novels don’t confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers’ enjoyment. A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.’ Caroline Criado-Perez, GuardianĪlmost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong.
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